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Year 4- Rowan
Last updated 27.01.25
Welcome to Rowan Class
2024 - 2025.
We are Year 4 and our teachers are Mrs Ratcliffe and Mrs Douglas .
Mrs Ratcliffe teaches us Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
Mrs Douglas teaches us Thursday and Friday.
The class teaching assistants are:
Mrs L. Harvey (HLTA) in the mornings.
Miss Keeble, and Mrs Busuttil in the afternoons.
Rowan Team
Message from the Year 4 team:
Welcome to the Summer Term in Year 4.
The Christian Value for this half term is 'Respect'. We will be exploring the different ways we can apply this value in our lives. You may like to talk to your children about this value and what it means to you.
Our Topic this term is about "The Ancient Maya Civilisation" We will be focusing on History/Geography.
We continue to follow our Rowan Class Rules that we all signed, to make sure every one of us can learn and thrive in a happy and safe environment.
As our independence grows we are really focusing on our, whole school Big Ideas for learning behaviour: FOCUS, PERSEVERANCE & REFLECTION.
In the Spring Term, Rowan Class will be learning about:
Writing: We will write an extended narrative based on a beautiful picture book Over an Under the Rainforest by Kate Messner.
All about a walk through a rainforest and the sights and sounds that overwhelm the senses ...
Our class Reader is: Running Wild by Michael Morpurgo
Computing: Editing photos using different programs; cropping, rotating, colour adjust and artistic affects. Learning about the ethics of changing an image and the impact this can have.
Science: Our theme is Sound. This involves understanding how sound travels through vibrations to our ears.
Topic: History. We will be learning about how the Maya Civilisation evolved, how they used astronomy to build their cities as well as inventing their calendar. After half term, we will be learning about their society, beliefs and their disappearance when the Conquistadors arrived..
Access Art: The Art of Display. Inspiration - Thomas J Price and Anthony Gormley. Experimentation: The Fourth Plinth Project and Clay Figures on plinths. Expression: A pocket-size Gallery...
DT Project Healthy Pizza Making
Year 4 homework consists of regular reading, weekly spellings and weekly times tables practice.
Each half term, Rowan class has a piece of creative home learning linked to our learning. This will be sent home with your child during each half term.
Weekly Times Tables Homework:
Early in the second half of the Summer Term, Year 4 will take part in the National Multiplication Tables Check.
The children have worked extremely hard leaning their tables this year and we would recommend that they continue practising over the half term break in readiness for the Check on their return to school in June.
All children should use TTRS daily to try to ensure they maintain their fantastic progress.
The following tables are the ones which most commonly appear:
- 6 x 6, 6 x 7, 6 x 8, 6 x 9, 6 x 12
- 7 x 8, 7 x 9, 7 x 12
- 8 x 9, 8 x 12
- 11 x 12, 12 x 12
These facts should be learnt commutatively e.g. 8x9, 9x8 along with any tables the children may find more challenging.
It is recommended that the children practice for the times set out below.
They can also use alternative online games and there are links at the bottom of this page.
If they want to practise writing tables out they can.
Summer Term Creative Homework Project
Our weekly timetable: we aim to follow this as closely as possible but it may change due to special events or the children's interests.
Proud Moments for our Class:
Our Harvest Poetry and Artwork and our Anglo-Saxon Workshop!
Anglo Saxon Workshop
Rowan class do PE on a Monday and Thursday .
On these days, please send your child to school in the following smart PE kit:
A white t-shirt, blue shorts and suitable trainers.
A black or navy hoodie and black or navy jogging bottoms.
If your child wears earrings and can't remove them independently, it is best they are left at home on PE days as they will need to be removed before the lesson.
Swimming lessons take place in the summer term. Further information will be sent out nearer the time.
Weekly spelling and timestables homework:
Homework should be completed and returned to school the following Thursday (or Friday) morning.
Spellings will be tested on Friday morning .
If your child is unsure which Group they are in for Spelling and Timestables, please suggest they confirm with their teacher.
Y 3 and Y 4 Statutory Spelling list
Homework Overview
Year 4 Learning
Computing: Learning about networks, internet, websites and content:
Art
We have been getting creative enjoying our brand new art curriculum #AccessArt
Our first unit: story telling through drawing, develops our sketching skills; thinking about marks, lines and depth. We created a scene and imagined a story, next week we will build on our drawings and write text to add meaning to our pictures...
The children were really focused and engaged throughout - we cannot wait to see their finished pieces.
A list of websites and free activities to support Home Learning.
Use the following links to access useful websites, many of which we use in the classroom.
Contact us.
Got a question or want to let us know something? The contact box below is a quick, direct way for you to get in touch with Year 4 teachers. If you would like to speak to us you can use this to request a phone call. We aim to check the email every few days during term time and to reply as soon as we can.